【#1114】S. Korean Court Admitted Academic Freedom in Ruling on Comfort Women
January 29, 2024 On January 24, the Seoul Western District Court acquitted a former university professor accused of defamation through a remark that wartime comfort women were a kind of prostitute...
【#1113】Pyongyang’s Policy Shift Stems from People’s Longing for South
January 29, 2024 A major policy shift is taking place in Pyongyang. South Korea is not part of the same nation to be reunified, but an enemy country to be conquered by war, according to North Kore...
【#1112】Plight of Kawaguchi City Accepting Foreigners Loosely
January 29, 2024 Kawaguchi City in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo is a core city with a population of 600,000, of which about 40,000 or 6.7% are foreigners. While many of them are familiar with the...
【#1111】Aim for Policy-oriented Politics Following Abe’s Example
January 29, 2024 The late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aimed for policy-oriented politics. In the first place, factions emerged within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to respond, in a s...
【#1110】Detect Falsified GDP Data and Disengage from China
January 22, 2024 Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has announced that China achieved its real economic growth target of 5% for 2023 as China’s gross domestic product in the year increa...
【#1109】Was Japan’s Economy Overtaken by Germany?
January 22, 2024 In 2023, it became certain that Japan’s nominal GDP (gross domestic product) on a dollar basis was overtaken by Germany, dropping Japan to the fourth largest economy in the world....
【#1108】Eliminate Harm of Factions and Head for Constitutional Amendment
January 22, 2024 Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who doubles as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has announced to dissolve a major LDP faction that he had led. In response, the larges...
【#1107】Don’t Restrict SDF Personnel from Visiting Yasukuni
January 15, 2024 On January 9, dozens of Self-Defense Forces personnel, including the deputy chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Many media...
【#1106】Lessons Japan Should Learn from Taiwan Election
January 15, 2024 During campaigns for Taiwan’s presidential election on January 13, Beijing tried to exert influence on Taiwan in a variety of ways to ensure that the election results would be fav...
【#1105】Japan Should Be Prepared to Fight While Welcoming Lai’s Victory
January 15, 2024 It is delightful that Lai Chingte of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, who is pro-American and pro-Japanese and distances himself from China, won the presidential election th...